In this plight I appeared before my professedly Christian master, humbly to invoke the interposition of his power and authority, to protect me from further abuse and violence.
Douglass describes his appeal to his master for protection, underscoring the master's supposed religious piety against the reality of his power.
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True it is that this faith was many times shaken by passing events, but never destroyed.
For the moment the northern lamb was transformed into a lion, and his roar was terrible.
Land is not worth much where there are no people to occupy it, and a mule is not worth much where there is no one to drive him.
It had no interest in recognizing or preserving any of the ties that bind families together or to their homes.